NEUROTIC HEREDITY AND CANCER.

Marriage and Heredity

Mydriasis and heredity.

Routine ophthalmoscopy and fundoscopy of 673 individuals revealed 42 whose irides failed to dilate to a clinically useful degree within 25 to 30 min after the administration of drops of 1% mydracil. These individuals occurred with different frequency among the Aymara, Mestizo, and non-Aymara groups which made up the sample of examinees. The phenomenon was most common among the Aymara, less comm...

Heredity and Mental Diseases

Lecture, on heredity in relation to mental disease and mental deficiency by Sir Frederick Mott, and also the obituary notice of the distinguished author. The lecture is an important contribution to the problem of insanity and mental deficiency. Sir Frederick opened his lecture by asking whether the increase in the number of registered cases of insanity is due to a raising of the standard of men...

Is Science Neurotic?

Neurosis can be interpreted as a methodological condition which any aim-pursuing entity can suffer from. If such an entity pursues a problematic aim B, represents to itself that it is pursuing a different aim C, and as a result fails to solve the problems associated with B which, if solved, would lead to the pursuit of aim A, then the entity may be said to be "rationalistically neurotic". Natur...

Neurotic tendencies in epilepsy.

Many psychiatrists believe that there are special personality traits characteristic of the epileptic. Various writers have referred to these as mental peculiarities, emotional instability, impulsiveness, moral anergia, and incapacity for productive occupation involving initiative and consecutive activity (Spratling, 1904), eccentricity, supersensitiveness, emotional poverty, and rigidity (Clark...